My Sphere of Madness

This might be a little overdue,
but I was looking through some of my old posts,
and stubled upon this challenge in one of the comments :
(http://ingerine.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/self-examination/)

Try to look at yourself from a distance…

What irritates you the most about Ine?
I think what might irritate me the most about Ine is the fact that she seems very indifferent to everything.
She won’t argue with you if she doesn’t have to,
she’ll simply brush you off with a line like “if you think so” or “whatever”
- so you never really know what she’s actually thinking.
And the fact that she’ll shrug off any attempt to start a conversation about anything your passionate about.

What facinates you the most about Ine?
Everything she says is drenched with either sarcasm or irony.
But she switches incredibly fast to being totally serious,
and one should not be fooled by her jokingly tone.

What is the worst thing about her?
Her inability to care about things she doesn’t consider to be her problem.
And that she won’t do anything for anyone unless she wants to, or if it benefits her.

What is the best thing about her?
She is really good at being supportive, and always being optimistic on others behalf.
That, no matter what your problem is, she’ll always try to help solve it.
And if she realizes she can’t, she’ll still listen to you, and give the best advices she can.

What personal qualities describes Ine the best?
+   Honest. Reliable. Strong moral sense. Supportive. Understanding.
-    Short-tempered. Indifferent. Self-interested.

What could she do better?
I guess she could be more considerate, and do more for other people – without any intentions.
And be more honest about her feelings, and not keep them locked up all the time..

Well, like everyone else, I guess I could use some work…
But, no matter how you look at this – I‘m still the one writing!
And I can only reflect on myself based on what others have told me (or  the obvious things I already knew).
Yes, I have a lot of bad qualities, and my personality might be in need of a makeover.
Truth to be told – I can’t help being…well, you may call it indifferent…
I’m pretty happy with being me, and I have no compulsion to make any major alterations to my personality.
Okay, I must admit I wished I was a bit braver, sometimes, or that my confidence was a bit stronger.
But most of the time, I’m content with being Ine, and I don’t want to try to make myself into someone I’m (clearly) not..

But still, I would like to hear your opinions on the matter
- answer a few short questions about me, and I might feel inclined to make some changes..

I was reading the blog of a friend of mine..
She’d written aboute something I’ve thought about many times.
So, I decided to write some words aboute it.

Have you ever thought aboute how much information people put about themselves on the internet?

I stumble..
meaning, I jump from page to page using peoples links.
It’s an amazingly fun was to find interesting sites, pictures etc.

Some times I stuble through blogs.
I start with a friend blog, click one of their links,
and it’s on to blog numer two, and so on..

This way, I end up knowing a whole lot of stuff about people I’ve never met or just heard about.
There’s often no filter on what people write in their blogs.
The talk aboute anything from life in general to trips they’ve been on, people they’ve met and things that have happened.
You can learn a lot aboute strengers this way.
Maybe too much.

The same thing goes for ex. facebook.
I love the network.
Mostly because it is the best way I have to contact many of my friends, not just at home, but all around the world.
But the thing is that you put out a lot of personal information on you’re profile.
Anything from simple things like you’re interests to homeadress to private photos.
And this way you can keep a close eye on what all your friends are dong, who they’re dating and what they did last weekend.
And by “friends” I mean anyone you allow to see your profile.
Often, it’s not even close friends.
Just people you know of, or someone you met that one time many, many years ago.

It’s crazy to think of, actually.

Okay, so I know that it’s possible to decide who you’d want to see what.
And that you don’t have to put out any form of personal or private info if you don’t want to.
It’s just that som many people don’t even think about it.
They post anything, and recklessly ignore the possible consequences.

I admit, I do it myself.
But I have these rules of thumb:
Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want your grandparents to see.
Filter your friends (no, they aren’t all “frends” you’d like to shear anything with)
And last but not least, be sure to set your profile to be exclusively for those you allow to shear it with.

But back to where I started:
By just stumbling around the internet, you can end up “knowing” a lot of people you’ve never met.
So what if you end up meeting them one day? Then what?
You admit all you know about them, and tell them to skip the basic stuff?
Or should you stay silent with what you know, and let them repeat it all to you?
It’s a dilemma created by the world wide web.

So I wonder.
How much do people know aboute me?
I can’t be the only one that discovers things aboute strangers by stumbeling my way across the web.
There’s bound to be people who by chance (or knowingly) comes across this page, and starts reading.
There’s not a lot of personal info on this page, I try keeping it on a minimum level.
But you can get to know a lot about people by reading between the lines too.

By reading what I’ve written here, I’m sure you’d be able to come up with a prettu accurate profile of what kind of person I am.
You don’t have to be an expert to do that. You just read, and put the puzzle together as the pieces reveal themselves.

So, why do I keep writing?
Who knows…